Sherlock Licorish

Biography

Dr Sherlock Licorish is a Lecturer in the department of Information Science at University of Otago. Dr Licorish’s analytics research involves the use of data mining, data visualization, statistical analysis and other quantitative methods (e.g., social network analysis, linguistic and sentiment analysis, natural language processing (NLP) and probabilistic modelling techniques). He has also used qualitative methods in his research, including qualitative forms of content analysis and dilemma analysis. These techniques (both quantitative and qualitative) are often applied to large repositories and software artefacts. Dr Licorish serves as a reviewer for several top conferences and journals.   

Research Interest

  Dr Sherlock Licorish's current research focuses on: Modelling the software development process and evaluating the use of software methodologies, and particularly agile approaches. Exploring and evaluating software teams’ behaviour and performance under various conditions, or in addressing various forms of software activities (e.g., resolving defects or building new features, gathering software requirements, or performing software maintenance tasks). The development and provision of software tools to aid software developers and enhance end-users’ involvement in the feedback processes. Dr Licorish is also interested in topics considered under market-driven (and crowd-sourced) requirements engineering. Empirical software engineering and analytics, covering global software development, open source software (OSS) development and virtual communities.